This week in the New York offices of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, we experienced something we will never forget. Former hostages walked through our doors, many accompanied by the family members who had only recently embraced them after they emerged from the tunnels of Gaza. They stood before us: present, breathing, still recovering, but standing before us with a courage that humbled us all.

For two years, we prayed for this moment without knowing if it would ever come. As we told them that afternoon, they never left our hearts. Not for a day. Not for an hour.

They saw how our community mobilized out of a commitment to human dignity, to the Jewish people and to the conviction that “never again” must mean something.

They stood in the offices where t

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